Are computer geeks (outside of webdom) having more unemployment troubles than
the rest of the population? The economy sucks for everybody.
Maybe its just that this is the first time that computer geeks have really
been in sufficient supply relative to demand that they are feeling a
recession?
Another part of it may be that the computer-geek community really rode the
internet bubble in the late 1990's and there are jobs but the pay has come
back down into the realm of sanity. The result is that much of Geekdom needs
to find salaries that sadly no longer exist.
(I am pretty certain that the Pointy Haired Managers and Evil Queens of HR
have yet to discover that bright high-school kids can be hired part time to
do 50% of the IS/IT workload! [and next 45% can be done by the same kids
after they have three to five years of experience]).
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